Why I Exchanged My iPad Pro 2020...For One 2 Generations Older By Kristina Braly

Hello everyone welcome back to my channel, so today we're going to talk a little about why I returned to my 2020 I prep pro before we get into that. I want to invite you to subscribe. If you're new here my name is Kristina I am a physician and the CC geologist, a mom dog, mom, wife and YouTuber and I make videos several times per week. So I would love to have you back? I cover a variety of topics, including lifestyle, vlogs, medical entertainment, medical vlogs, day-in-the-life videos react to videos and tech reviews and tech, videos in general so hit that subscribe button, and I'd love to have you back, let's get into the meat of this video. So why did I return? My twenty-twenty twelve point: nine-inch iPad Pro, which I recently did a video about all the apps that are online they're, still the same apps, but they're now on a different I pad and that iPad is actually two generations prior to the twenty-twenty iPad Pro. And if you guys recall, I actually had the twenty eighteen eleven-inch iPad Pro, and that was the first kind of major redesign of the iPad Pro lineup and the evolution of the Apple Pencil with wireless charging.

So why would I downgrade several generations back? I've actually got the 2017 rose-gold iPad Pro in the ten and a half inch version, and that comes with the first generation Apple Pencil, the one you have to plug in so the reason why I actually ended up switching was because I preferred the smaller form factor. I've made this mistake in the past I. Don't know why I thought it was a good idea to upgrade to a larger size, but I had the 11-inch iPad Pro, and then I went up to the twelve point. Nine inch I sold everything that was 11 inches. iPad pro I bought the 2021, and I actually returned them, and Apple has a very generous return policy right now because of the pandemic.

So I got to use it for more than a month and still ended up returning it because I just thought it was too big and then, when I really got around to thinking about it, I was like this is so expensive for what it is. So my iPad was almost if not entirely fully Spec ht out, and it was just shy of $1500 there's no way an iPad can be justified to be that kind of price unless I'm really utilizing it to the max of its peak potential. If I am video editing on it, if I have it as a replacement for a laptop computer, if I am doing heavy photo graphics, video editing on it on a daily basis, it would make sense, but I'm not using it for that, and I've never used an iPad for that Pro or not. What I use an iPad for is everything that I would do on a laptop, but don't want to take the laptop around for, so I literally just carry my iPad around my house, and I'll plop down on the couch, and I'll continue flying. This is how I reply to a lot of your comments on YouTube and give you hearts and likes, and things I actually even use the awful iPad Instagram app.

Please, Instagram! Will you please make an iPad specific, Instagram app? That would be amazing, but I digress. So what I use this for is I do use it for photo management. I do use Lightroom I do use procreate, I do use a number of graphics intensive apps, but that is what the iPad pros are made for, and it's in going back a couple of years does not mean that you are downgrading the quality, it's an older processor, but it still has a decent amount of RAM for a pro level tablet. It's actually I mean remember every time one of these was introduced. It was the best of the best right.

So this was still Edward, the iPad Pro in Apple's eyes. I feel like it feels a lot slimmer in the hand I like the accessories that come with it better I love that it comes in a variety of colors I got mine, certified renewed, which means you can buy it currently and I. Don't know how long you're, watching this video out, if you're, watching this like freshly, and it's still available, but you can get these certified renewed from Apple's website and what that means is they replace the screen? They replace the shell. So this is all new, and they replaced the battery. So everything else I mean what do you little skew care about? Those are the only three things that you really care about when you're buying a refurbished item, and they're all brand new in this iPad, so I was like it's a no-brainer and I saved half off what I would have paid for the twelve point: nine-inch iPad Pro now the specs are different.

Obviously I'm not going to deny that it's a little less storage, I maxed it out. We think it's 256. Let me show you the specs hold on I'm running iOS 13.5, which is the most current version. As of the time of filming. It still comes with AppleCare plus coverage eligible.

It is the cellular version, so it has the little antenna thing right here, and it uses an ECM. So I have currently a T-Mobile data plan. Oh I'm, sorry, it's not 256 is 512 gigabytes of memory, which is amazing and I. Think that's actually the same size that I had a Ridge I may have ordered a terabyte on my iPad Pro 12 point 9 inches I can't remember that. Don't quote me on that: I have so much processing power on this.

It is incredible if you run Geek bench scores, which is a way of measuring processor power and CPU power. It's incredible, I actually stumbled upon as I was doing. I was like hmm 20/20 iPad Pro like I, was debating whether I really wanted it still, and I was like well. What would I use instead and started kind of doing this deep dive thanks to YouTube's, recommended videos, algorithm of iPad Pro videos and as I was watching them? I started seeing once for the old one, which is this one, the 10.5 inch. This is a 2017 model, so it's three years old in terms of calendar years, but it's two generations behind after this model was introduced in 2017, then the 2018 iPad Pro came out.

They did not have a 2019 iPad Pro refresh. They did that this year in 2020, so this is two generations behind. So what I actually stumbled upon was a bunch of creators who made some very helpful content regarding this versus the 2018 iPad Pro, and they both some who have made a 20-17 versus 20/20 iPad Pro video, and they found out, was little different. So unless you care about bezels of home buttons and I, actually prefer the home button for the iPad, because I take the iPad to work. I already have so much that his face ID and, as you know, in my line of work, I wear a mask almost all day long, regardless of a pandemic.

Okay, I'm, an anesthesiologist I'm, always wearing a mask, face, ID, never works. For me, it's ok with the phone, because you know it's a phone and I want the best in the latest technology and even though I missed the touch ID the face. I'd is nice. It's just sucking when you're wearing a mess, now people kind of get understand our predicament. People like me who work in the operating room because we were a mask all day, and it's nice to have a device that doesn't require the face ID.

So it's just nice when I have said my phones in my pocket and I. Have my mask on and walking around the hospital I'm on break and I just touched my thumb to the button, and it opens I, don't have to pull my mask on I, don't have to touch it. It is really great. The Apple Pencil I prefer this Apple Pencil. The newer one is a little shorter than the first generation, so I actually prefer the weight and length of this particular Apple Pencil I.

Just don't like how glossy it is, so I fixed that by putting this beautiful, blush, pink silicone cover on it, which I will link down below I. Believe I got on it, yeah I got it on Amazon, and it has a little thing. That's like a protective cover in case you drop, if I have done that, and I have damaged Apple Pencil tips before, so I think that was on my old one. So my old new one, my older new Orleans, anyway, whatever so. The only thing, of course that nobody likes about this version of the Apple Pencil is that it does have to plug in here.

But the nice thing about this silicone cover is that has a little kind of key ball little holder thing for the cap, so I just spin that back plug it in it's the Apple Pencil second generation, the one that it's kind of magnetically charged onto the side of the current generation of iPad. It would disconnect the Bluetooth much more often than this one I can leave this one for like 12 hours, I can go to sleep. Wake up the next day, not reconnect this at all to the iPad like just pick it up open the iPad Smart Cover. The display turns on, and I'm already using it, and it works perfectly, but that wouldn't be the case I. Maybe it's just me chime in.

If any of you have had this similar experience, who have used iPad pros in the past, but I am finding that this stays connected for much longer and it charges so quickly that this awkward moment barely has to happen. But once every few days, if not once a week, pretty much so I, don't find that that's really as big of an issue as people were making it to be, and I really loved, that I didn't have to spend the most money to get level quality. Superfast I've got promotion display on here, which you won't be able to tell because of the frame rate that YouTube videos are presented, but 120 Hertz is twice the speed of what I normally film at the result is a snappy display. It feels very fluid great for playing video games, fantastic for watching movies on, and it adjusts the frame rate of the display based on what content is being presented to you now make no mistake. This is offered on later model iPads, like the 2018 and 2020 only the pros.

So only the pros have this display, and only this version and up, so that's why I wouldn't necessarily recommend going with an older iPad Pro model, the first gen. This is technically the second gen. The third gen was the first refresh and major refresh and then the fourth gen is what we have now of the 20/20. It's all a little confusing I can still pair it with a mouse pair it with a Bluetooth, keyboard and I can still utilize this in exactly the same way that I would, if I was using the newest one with the fancy magic keyboard. Now, a lot of you guys may remember, I mentioned in my discord.

Server I was planning and had ordered the magic keyboard. I pre-ordered it about a month and a half in advance, and I was eagerly awaiting it. But as some reviews started coming out and mine had not shipped, yet I was I began to realize that I didn't really want it, and I'll tell you why I didn't want the magic keyboard and that's when all of this kind of transpired it started with me cancelling my order for the magic keyboard. The magic keyboard can't be flipped around to like this cover can to make the iPad flat when you want to hold it in portrait position. So quite often, I'll do something like this and then with the smart, folio keyboard or a smart cover like this I would wrap it around set it like this type on it.

What if I had a keyboard built-in, but I still wanted it to be able to go flat and the magic keyboard, the newest one that has like the floating display? It doesn't allow you to do that, so you can't fold it behind. You have to take the whole thing off, and then you have this unprotected iPad with no case on it that you're, holding, and you're like magnetically, attaching back and forth on to a keyboard case that doesn't pull it back. It just didn't make any sense to me when I really thought about it. When I went and going I got past, the hype I was like this is not fun. I'm not gonna, be functional for me, and it's just going to irritate me, and then I will have regretted spending 350 dollars on a case with a keyboard on it.

So that is where I'm at right now, like I said, I will link my previous video that shows the apps that I currently have and how I have them installed. You guys seem to really like the organization of it the app recommendations that still applies, even though that video is on the 20/20 iPad, you can take get a chance to look at it there if you want, but I have a new, much preferred Apple provide it's like an apple wallpaper that they had just for a short period of time for the release of this color iPad Pro, which is the rose gold, and so I did, did a little research on the internet and found the high-res version of it. So I'll link that down below, because that was definitely good. Fine, it's just such a pretty color and I liked all so. Let's talk about the exterior I like the way I like the rose gold I, liked that it's just a little girly.

It's got an aesthetic and the new iPad pros don't have that they come in a silver or a dark gray color they're, very masculine they're they're, very angular they're had like flat sides, and they just don't feel as comfortable to hold, if I'm being honest I like them, but I like this better- and this is a version of the iPad Pro I never had, so I never had this version, I had the original version and then what did I do I sold it and I got an iPad Mini and I never went back to an iPad Pro until the 2018 version, so I'm so happy with this like and I paid half the price I think I paid like six hundred and fifty dollars for everything, and that's a perfect deal when you're, considering that just an iPad Pro 912 point nine in 2020 version fully spectate is around $1,500, plus a $350 keyboard, plus 130 dollar Apple Pencil, which these are $99 brand new or even less. If they are refurbished and with this inexpensive, Logitech mouse and keyboard combo it just made, it just makes more sense. Financial sense. It's a happier like feeling for me: it's an it's a cleaner look, it's go times with my aesthetic. It still does everything I want it to do, but I don't have to spend as much money and I get what I want I.

Just it's just a no-brainer for me. So that's why I switched to an older iPad Pro again certified refurbished completely swapped out battery screen and shell, so it was absolutely flawless, and it came with all the accessories, and it was presented to me as if it was brand-new. Just came in a little of a different box, so yeah that is my iPad Pro update, what I'm doing with it lately, if you want to see like how I utilize it when I use the Apple Pencil for the notes that I take on it, the illustrations that I do for my videos, the organization that I do for my business is all on the iPad Pro so yeah. If you want to see a video about more or a couple of videos more about how I utilize the iPad Pro to its potential that works for me, let me know in the comments below thank you so much for watching. Please give this video a thumbs up, and I'll see you in the next one bye.

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